Tag: Azure Automation

Last week, I had an opportunity teamed up with the legendary CDM MVP Pete Zerger (@pzerger) and delivered a session on Azure Automation at Microsoft Ignite Australia in Gold Coast, Queensland. Our session was the first session right after the opening keynote, so while some other sessions are still waiting to be uploaded to Channel 9 at the moment, our session has already been published. You can watch the recording here: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/Australia-2015/ARC311 I have also published all the sample runbooks and other information on Github: https://github.com/tyconsulting/AUIgnite2015

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My friend and fellow CDM MVP Pete Zerger just pinged me and told me he just spotted that Azure Automation webhooks now support targeting Hybrid Workers. The webhook configuration used to look like this: (Source image from David O’Brien’s blog: http://www.david-obrien.net/2015/05/azure-automation-webhooks/) Currently, the webhook configuration looks like this: Few days ago when Pete and I delivered the Azure Automation session at Microsoft Ignite Australia, in one of our demos, we used Webhook to kick off a process to create AD user accounts on On-Prem Active Directory using Hybrid Workers. Because Webhook did not support Hybrid Workers back then, we had

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Recently when I was working with Stanislav Zhelyazkov on the OMSSearch module, Stan discovered an issue where the module connection type does not get updated when you import an updated version of the module in Azure Automation if the fields have been modified in the module. I have also seen this issue with SMA, so it is not only specific to Azure Automation. Stan has also raised this issue in the User Voice: http://feedback.azure.com/forums/246290-azure-automation/suggestions/8791036-connection-fields-for-modules-are-not-updated As you can see from the feedback from Joe Levy and Beth Cooper, it is a known issue with SMA and Azure Automation. Joe has also

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Over the last few days, I’ve been playing with the OMSSearch PowerShell / SMA / Azure Automation Module my friend and fellow SCCDM MVP Stanislav Zhelyazkov has created. I am now part of this project on Github and have become the 3rd contributor (after Stan and Stefan Stranger). The module was updated yesterday (version 5.1.1) with some of my updates. Today, I have written a sample runbook: Invoke-OMSSavedSearch. As the name suggests, it performs a user defined saved search. Note: due to the limitation of the OMS Search API, we can only retrieve the user defined saved searches. Therefore you

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Introduction This is the 3rd instalment of the Automating OpsMgr series. Previously on this series: Automating OpsMgr Part 1: Introducing OpsMgrExtended PowerShell / SMA Module Automating OpsMgr Part 2: SMA Runbook for Creating ConfigMgr Log Collection Rules Today, I will demonstrate a rather simple runbook to create a blank management pack in the OpsMgr management group. Additional, I will also demonstrate executing this runbook not only on your On-Premise Service Management Automation (SMA) infrastructure, but also from an Azure Automation account via Hybrid Workers. Since the Hybrid Worker is a very new component in Azure Automation, I will firstly give

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Background Previously, I have posted how to build your own Microsoft OpsMgr MP Catalog on SharePoint 2013 using SMA. It is a solution that you can implement on-prem in your own environment if you have existing SharePoint 2013 and SMA infrastructure in place. As I mentioned at the end of the previous post, I have also developed a solution to populate this MP catalog on a Office 365 SharePoint Online site using Azure Automation – a 100% cloud based solution. Because of the differences in APIs between on-prem SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint online, one of the runbooks is completely different

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Over the last couple of days, I’ve spent sometime on Azure Automation (SMA in Azure). The first thing I did was imported and configured the SendEmail and SendPushNotification SMA Integration Modules that I have posted earlier. I created a simple test runbook to send an email and a push notification to my android phone:

However, I found 2 issues related to the SendEmail module. I’ll go through both of the issues in this post. Issue 1 When I executed this runbook, it failed to send the email message. I got this error: Cannot find the ‘Send-Email’ command. If this